Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board

Re: Just another example...

Yes but this is more like having your corner store get a team of lawyers to confirm in writing with each of their suppliers that their products don't contain weapons of mass destruction.

Fairly easy if your Costco, a little expensive for a corner shop.

No but it does help big sites remove the competition. Handy if you're a deputy PM hoping for a job when you lose an election

NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack

Re: Kaliningrad

>Ooof, you'll be Saar-y that you suggested that!

This time we give eastern Germany to France and western Germany to Poland - confuse them !

>There has sadly been a lot of blood shed over borders in Europe over many many years, I'm not so sure that we should joke that much about what is still quite a sensitive subject.

Fine, we just take Aquitaine and Normandy back.

Re: Shame

Being a Russian ship it probably was made of cardboard derivatives

Re: Shame

Obviously you would tow it outside the environment first

Re: Kaliningrad

Simple solution:

1, Divide Germany into East/West halves

2, Give half to France, half to Poland

Re: US Navy

But he actually did it, so it's not as funny

Re: US Navy

Mel Gibson ?

Re: Kaliningrad

Germany should be returned to the Swedish Empire (not sure which trolls that brings out!)

Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions

>I doubt a greed-driven business like Nvidia knows much about national security.

Just because Boeing makes a massive loss on its USAF contracts doesn't mean it doesn't know about national security - it's just a bit incompetent

Re: Wot?

>200mHz DEC Alpha to Kazakhstan

Well 12 instructions/minute was pretty cutting edge in Kazakhstan

Re: Wot?

Back in the 90s we had problems getting a prototype PCB from the USA to Cambridge because it contained a revolutionary ARM processor

That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise

We write off laptops as soon as the Dell warranty runs out.

Means we have a stack of pretty nice laptops to 'repurpose'

Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them

Re: Apropos of which

We all support the Womble Equality Front

Re: two-thirds plan to hire talent with specific AI skills

If Sam is smart he'll get the AI to generate a Powerpoint about "Using AI to leverage dynamic synergies" and when he presents this he will be promoted to "AI Grand Leverager of Synergies" and won't have to worry about the accounts dept

Re: Farmworkers, delivery drivers, construction workers, ... nursing, .. education

>But strawberries, broccoli, lettuce etc. could not only double but would also be in very short supply

So what ?

Only democrats eat vegetables. So long as a big-mac and a mega mac-slurpy-gulp meal doesn't cost more

Re: "administrative roles that automation can easily replace"

As long as you remember to record what the AI wrote, and preserve it in a manner which will stand up in court

Re: So, what's their record like

>I wish stories like this were accompanied by a brief history of how well their previous predictions had planned out

The introduction of computers will mean an end to office admin jobs

Re: Sales Jobs Safe!

Can you get the AI to say/do illegal things to make the sale?

Can you do it in such a way that it can't be recorded/proved ?

Re: Gen AI/LLMs are Cheaper than People

.. until you need accurate output

That's why AI will mostly be used to replace CEOs, lawyers, marketing, politicians, economists

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

Re: Job interview

If you are in Florida and are looking for a child to help you configure a VPN so you can access porn. Can I suggest you are very careful how you word the advert ?

Re: Mobsters did very well out of Prohibition

Ultimately isn't it a problem for their advertising business ?

You have to believe an advert on some level, if a pitch for safety and reliability of some new car is sandwiched between pet eating aliens and Jewish space lasers - why would you buy, and why would the maker pay for this 'exposure' ?

Re: Sadly, I could foresee the current internet issues arising YEARS ago...

I blame writing.

When you had to go into the market and tell your story people would punch you if you told lies about Marduk

Once you were able to anonymously publish lies about the quality of Ea-nāṣir's copper and there was no accountability the world went downhill

But the nice thing about fact-free internet is that if it's on the internet he did say it.

CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet

boost productivity

Productivity = income / worker

Is it clear whether AI increases the numerator or decreases the denominator ?

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

The real news

Does anyone know the background "issues" of his latest cabinet pick ?

No me neither, it doesn't seem to have made the news in the last few days

What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This...

Re: Not a free speech case

And I think they clarified the law so that eg. flat earthers can't now sue NASA.

Re: Not a free speech case

The deeper legal bit though is that London is a favourite place for libel jurisdiction shopping. It's very hard to defend against libel actions in the UK.

A prominent science journalist spent years fighting a libel action from a bunch of homeopathy practitioners because his claims that it was q load of bollocks was libelous.

So if the USA is prepared to hand over internet records to libel cases in London, the whole world is going to start suing TPFKAT/Meta/wibble-pling etc there

Look for the label: White House rolls out 'Cyber Trust Mark' for smart devices

US Cyber Trust Mark

Ha, haa, haaa , haaaa

no, just give me a second

Haaa, haaa, haaa

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

Since the whole design is done in-house there was probably very little cost in developing the 16Gb version.

And as they do their own manufacturing and the difference is pick+place memory chip2 rather than chip1 and they can adjust quantity to demand almost instantly

But doesn't the same company charge $1000 for wheels on their desktop cases?

Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%

Re: Back to the future

>Those agreement did not benefit the US people, mostly they benefited political donors

So what makes you think they are about to abandon them?

Re: Replacing Imports

Can you fatten Americans on soybeans ?

Asking for a Moloch friend

Re: "US bankruptcies

I'm waiting for the Harley Davidson cat-walk show

Re: "If Trump decides to walk into Greenland, who is going to stop him?"

But only France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Finland have the domestic reactors and engineering capability to build nuclear weapons.

Re: Apple's margins

Apple won't be affected by tarrifs.

Apple can contribute a $Bn to a Florida golf course and be exempted.

It can declare that the 'value' of the Chinese made iPhone is only $100 for duty purposes because the $1500 worth of iOS is added in America.

Re: Another biased west coast article

The 'important parts' ie the CPU is made in Taiwan. Only the motherboard, screen, battery, case and assembly is Chinese.

We only have to transfer the low skill, low cost assembly to plants in the USA and buy all the other components from China through Vietnamese middlemen.

Something something great again.

Re: The US voters

Well Liz Truss wasn't a naturally born American. Boris was born in America but you have to assume it wasn't natural

Re: Replacing Imports

>domestically produced food will drop, because farmers can't export due to retaliatory tariffs

Which is great if you want to eat soybeans and corn syrup.

American domestic agriculture is fantastically productive but not necessarily a broad healthy diet.

Re: Buried lede

Because they were only going to make and sell a handful. So the salaries of the engineers and the costs of making prototypes were only spread over a few units rather than millions.

Zuck takes a page from Musk: Meta dumps fact-checkers, loosens speech restrictions

Re: Nothing special in the context

Was the downvote from Ea-nāṣir?

Re: Nothing special in the context

Exactly - that copper was perfectly good, whatever that no-good Nanni said

Might I suggest that reducing your Facebook consumption to 0% might be beneficial to your mental health ?

Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'

Re: and the familiar Windows experience they know and love."

>"Between love and hate, there is only a small difference".

Only in a severally abridged dictionary

and the familiar Windows experience they know and love."

I didn't know AI was going to be that bad !

First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10

Re: 1:00-4:00am local time

Same reason Ridley Scott shot Blade Runner at night and in the rain. They couldn't afford a big enough set.

US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

Re: What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander

There is a difference between a Hisense or VW where the local government owns a % of the shares and so are a government entity and a company like Hisense VW where they were created and controlled directly by an evil regime

Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

Re: Phones

Yes the flag isn't "is this device getting updates" but "has this device been tampered with"

On Google Pixel phones you can install a properly signed alternate android build and include the proper keys, on other phones you need to leave it unlocked and have the banking apps try and determine if it is stock.

Re: 10 years !!!

Annoyingly this does still apply at the expensive end of things.

We have a bunch of $1000+ NVidia cards that only do CUDA version N when we are on CUDA version N+1

Even more annoyingly the newest most $$$ ones can't even be 'recycled' into home gaming machines

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%'

Re: VPN Warning

You can tell the VPNs that are government projects

They cost $10Bn, don't work, only support windows95, are only available 9-4 Mon-Fri, and are turned off when congress shuts down the government